Up the Aisles
The Ironies of Harvey Whittemore
February 16th, 2012
Once upon a time, it seemed, the state of Nevada danced to Harvey Whittemore’s tune. Times have changed. Read more »
The Day the Nevada GOP Died
February 8th, 2012
One of the running gags of the Republican presidential campaign season has been to say that the winner of each GOP debate has been Barack Obama. Some see that as funny, others as silly. But when it comes to the Nevada Republican party’s 2012 presidential caucus, truer words were never spoken. Read more »
Sisolak, Vermillion, and the Importance of History
February 2nd, 2012
Anyone who has been in a relationship from hell can appreciate the end of the one between Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak and former Henderson Councilwoman and Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth founder Kathleen Vermillion. Read more »
Sheldon and Newt
January 26th, 2012
Sheldon Adelson, leader of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. that owns the Venetian and the Palazzo here and a big chunk of Macau, also has made a down payment on the White House. He gave $5 million to the Super PAC backing Newt Gingrich, and his wife Miriam has followed up with another $5 million. Read more »
Steve Ross and the Politics of Recall
January 25th, 2012
Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross won his second term in 2009 but faces an election a year early—for the wrong reasons. Read more »
Whither North Las Vegas
January 20th, 2012
These days, North Las Vegas could amend Charles Dickens: it’s just the worst of times. The question is what to do about them. The answer appears both simple and impossible. Read more »
Benson Takes Podcast Show on the Road
January 11th, 2012
Doug Benson ambles out onto the stage at Palace Station’s Louis Anderson Theater Sunday night in a cloud of smoke, naturally. (Don’t worry, parents of impressionable youth. it’s just a fog machine gag.) As the theme music to his Doug Loves Movies podcast rolls, an audience of around 120 claps in time. Read more »
Wynning and Losing
January 11th, 2012
When Lyndon Johnson became president after John F. Kennedy’s death, some said their differences proved “Austin isn’t Boston.” Perhaps Steve Wynn wonders whether they meant Austin, Nev. Read more »
Steering One's Reputation A Laborious Process
January 4th, 2012
Franklin Roosevelt supposedly once said of the editorial sage of Emporia, Kan., William Allen White, that for 3½ of every four years, he was the fairest journalist in America -- but then, FDR implied, White went into campaign mode and forgot about fairness. Read more »
Immaculate Conceptions
December 21st, 2011
Last month, Mississippians, who are not normally noted for their liberal-mindedness, defeated a constitutional amendment with 55 percent of the vote that would have defined a fetus as a person from the moment of conception. Perhaps they realized this was ridiculous. Read more »
